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LATIN AMERICA

"We [Latin Americans] need
the United States as much as we need arsenic, and that is the
fact. We don't need it. We would need it, if they wanted to join
the rest of humanity and together work for a better future for
all of us, but they are not doing that. They have instilled, a
culture of death, of greed, of selfishness. And this is killing
the world."

former UN General Assembly President
Miguel d'Escoto

"[In Paraguay] 2 percent
of the population owns 70 percent of the land."

Marie-Monique Robin in the book
"The World According to Monsanto"

"In our own hemisphere,
dictators and oligarchs fronting for American corporations were
put in power and maintained often by the most brutal state terroristic
acts, including the use of death and torture squads in the Dominican
Republic, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Haiti, Chile, Bolivia,
Argentina and Uruguay."

William F. Pepper in his book "An
Act of State: the Execution of Martin Luther King"

"There is compelling evidence
that in Chile Nixon's tough stance against Allende in 1970 was
principally shaped by his concern for the future of the American
corporations whose assets, he believed, would be seized by an
Allende government."

investigative reporter Seymour
Hersh

"Bolivia is, in my opinion
at least, probably the most democratic country in the world. Nobody
says that, but if you look at what happened in the last couple
of years, there were huge, popular, mass organizations of the
most repressed population in the hemisphere, the indigenous population,
which for the first time ever has entered the political arena
significantly and were able to elect a president from their own
ranks and one who doesn't give instructions to his army, but who's
following policies that were largely produced by the population.
So he's their representative, in a sense in which democracy is
supposed to work."

Noam Chomsky, 2009

"During the Cold war, highly
politicized and ruthless militaries in Latin America, aided and
abetted by Washington, used the methods of terror to wage their
anticommunist wars in secrecy. Counterinsurgent forces created
a vast parallel infrastructure of clandestine detention centers
and killing machinery to avoid national and international law
and scrutiny, and utilized disappearance, torture, and assassination
to defeat "internal enemies."
... Six military states in South America extended ... parastatal
structures and extralegal methods across borders - with a "green
light" from the U.S. government - in a transnational repressive
program known as Operation Condor (or Plan Condor). The militaries
in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay were
the key protagonists of Condor, spreading dirty war throughout
the region and beyond. For them, the ends justified the means;
torture, extrajudicial executions, and abductions were considered
legitimate if employed against "subversives." During
the Cold War, tens of thousands of Latin American men, women,
and children were tortured and murdered as a result of such methods,
hundreds of them killed within the framework of Operation Condor."

J. Patrice McSherry in the book
"Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin
America"

"To Nixon and Kissinger,
the threat of Chile [under Salvador Allende] had lain in its relatively
democratic effort to radically transform its socioeconomic structure
-- to free itself from the economic domination of the United States
by nationalizing key industries, and by mobilizing poor and progressive
groups."

James Peck in his book "Ideal Illusions How the U.S. Government
Co-opted Human Rights"

"It is common knowledge
in the United States and throughout the world that the power ruling
the "banana republics" of Central America is and has
been the United Fruit Company - United Brands. It is no exaggeration
to say that every coup that has taken place in the region was
backed by the fruit company, which ran the nations of Central
America mercilessly as slave-labor plantations. In 1932, a coup
in El Salvador-with United Fruit sponsorship-exterminated 300,000
peasants who had risen up in revolt against the conditions in
which they were forced to live. For forty years, the United Fruit
Company stood behind the regime of Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua."

DOPE, INC., Executive Intelligence
Review, 1992

"Throughout history, Chiquita
banana has had enormous sway and power over Central American nations.
And we know that prior to the coup d'état in Honduras,
Chiquita was very unhappy about President Zelaya's minimum wage
decrees, because they said that this would cut into their profits
and make it more expensive for them to export bananas and pineapple.
... Throughout the twentieth century, Chiquita, formerly known
as United Fruit, was associated with some of the most backward,
retrograde political and economic forces in Central America and
indeed outside of Central America in such countries as Colombia.
And we know that United Fruit Company played a very prominent
role in the coup d'état against democratically elected
President Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954. And that ushered
in a very turbulent period in Guatemalan history, rampant human
rights abuses, genocide against the indigenous people of Guatemala."

Nikolas Kozloff, 2009

"Most of the techniques
of counterinsurgency, such as intelligence gathering, police work,
[and] propaganda... have been turned against the civilian population
[Latin America].
... Many of the victims of this repression charge, with good reason,
that the nation that led the fight against fascism in Europe has
contributed to its resurrection in Latin America.
That this could happen is due in large part to the United States'
historically contemptuous attitude toward Latin America, which
it has always looked upon as a purely business venture. Whereas
the atrocities committed by Hitler and Mussolini outraged the
American people, similar repression in Latin America elicits little
more than a yawn."

Penny Lernoux in her book "Cry
of the People"

LEFT MEDIA AND MOVEMENTSsee PROGRESSIVES

LIBERATION THEOLOGY

"Liberation theology denounces
the systems, structures, and mechanisms that create a situation
where the rich get richer at the expense of the poor, who get
even poorer."

theologian Leonardo Boff

"Liberation theology is
a movement that sprang from late 20th-century Roman Catholicism
and has found a particularly welcoming environment in Latin America.
Liberation theology holds that the church must stand on the side
of the impoverished and the downtrodden, and that it must,
if necessary, support the overthrow of social systems that contribute
to their oppression."

www.discoverthenetworks.org

"Liberation theologians
are among the few who have dared to underline, from the left,
the deficiencies of the liberal human rights movement. The most
glaring of these deficiencies emerges from intimate acquaintance
with the suffering of the poor in countries that are signatory
to all modern human rights agreements. When children living in
poverty die of measles, gastroenteritis, and malnutrition, and
yet no party is judged guilty of a human rights violation, liberation
theology finds fault with the entire notion of human rights as
defined within liberal democracies. "

Paul Farmer in his book "Pathologies
of Power"

"President Jean Bertrand
Aristide, the Roman Catholic priest who won Haiti's first democratic
elections in 1991, was a leader of the Lavalas Family Movement.
He preached liberation theology, which inspired revolution throughout
Latin America."

Dean Henderson in his book "Big
Oil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf"

"Pope Ratzinger (Pope Benedict
XVI) [and his boss John Paul II] destroyed liberation theology
which was the most vibrant and justice-oriented movement on the
planet, after the civil rights movement, and they replaced the
heroic bishops, like Oscar Romero of El Salvador, with Opus Dei
bishops. They did this all over South America. Opus Dei is a fascist
right-wing movement.
... South American liberation theologians realize that the Church
as now constituted under Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) and the
previous Pope [John Paul II] is impossible to deal with, because
Opus Dei is now running so many of the dioceses in South America,
and more and more, they are appointing Opus Dei bishops and cardinals
in North America too."

Matthew Fox , former Catholic priest,
author of book "The Pope's War"

"After two centuries of
foreign occupiers, dictators, generals, a self-appointed president
for life and the overthrow of more than 30 governments, Haitians
finally had the chance in 1990 to elect the leader they wanted.
The people chose Mr. [Jean-Bertrand] Aristide, a priest who had
been expelled from his Roman Catholic order for his fiery orations
of liberation theology.
He was espousing change in Haiti, fundamental populist change.
Right away, he was viewed as a threat by very powerful forces
in Haiti.
... President Aristide promised not only to give voice to the
poor in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, but also
to raise the minimum wage and force businesses to pay taxes."

Robert Maguire, a Haiti scholar

"The Vatican's secretive
Opus Dei, often referred to as the "saintly Mafia" was
behind the ascent of Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to Pope John
Paul II. The new Pope launched an Opus Dei/Vatican offensive to
roll back Latin American liberation theology movements."

Dean Henderson in his book "Big
Oil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf"

"Liberation theology is
a preferential option for the poor. The Gospel requires that we
put the poor out front, and that we listen to them."

a Latin American bishop

"We used to serve the Church,
now we serve humanity".

South American liberation theologians

"The CIA under [Ronald]
Reagan worked very closely with the Vatican [Pope John Paull II
and Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)] to destroy liberation theology."

Matthew Fox , former Catholic priest,
author of book "The Pope's War"

LIBYA

"The Libyan revolution
was portrayed as an extension of the Arab Spring, and NATO involvement
was framed in humanitarian terms.
The fact that the CIA was actively working to help the Libyan
rebels topple Gaddafi was no secret, nor were the airstrikes that
Obama ordered against the Libyan government. However, little was
said about the identity or the ideological leanings of these Libyan
rebels. Not surprising, considering the fact that the leader of
the Libyan rebels later admitted that his fighters included Al-Qaeda
linked jihadists who fought against allied troops in Iraq.
... After Gaddafi was overthrown, the Libyan armories were looted,
and massive quantities of weapons were sent by the Libyan rebels
to Syria. The weapons, which included anti-tank and anti-aircraft
missiles were smuggled into Syria through Turkey, a NATO ally."

scgnews.com, 2014

"In the wars in Iraq, Libya,
Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan and Syria, America has destroyed any
significant progress those nations had made in education, healthcare,
infrastructure such as water treatment and electricity, postal
services, courts. By degrading the standards of living for people
in perceived "hostile" nations, America's ruling elite
empowers itself, while claiming that it has ensured the safety
and prestige of the American people. Sometimes it is even able
to convince the public that its criminal actions are "humanitarian"
and designed to liberate the people in nations it destroys."

Douglas Valentine, 2017

"The rise of the Islamic
State (ISIS) did not happen overnight, nor by accident. It was
the logical result of the United States continuing its strategy
of proxy warfare it had carried out against Libya."

Tony Cartalucci

"Over 100 people died in
Paris (November 2015). While thousands are dying in Yemen, every
month... While 17,000 already vanished in Iran - victims of West-sponsored
terrorism... While hundreds of thousands have been dying in Libya
and Syria... While millions have been dying in Somalia and Iraq...
While some 10 millions already died in a looted and raped DRC
(the Democratic Republic of Congo) ... All of them victims of
Western assaults and banditry or of Western-sponsored terrorism
directly."

Andre Vltchek, 2015

"While Barack Obama's predecessor,
George W. Bush, can be properly credited with the destruction
of Afghanistan and Iraq, Obama managed to contribute significantly
to the destruction of Libya, Yemen, and Syria, while attacking
the people of Somalia as well."

Laurie Calhoun, 2017

Piers Morgan, 2017

"The goal of the American
elite is to make Syria, and then Iran, and then Russia join the
ranks of Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq. The plan
is to smash it into ethnic and religious lines, and to fuel fighting
between these groups for many years."

Douglas Valentine, 2017

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM

"I see in the near future
a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble
for the safety of my country... Corporations have been enthroned
and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money
power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working
upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated
in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."

Abraham Lincoln

"Abraham Lincoln was faced
with a financial crisis when he stepped into the Presidency in
1861. The country was suddenly in a civil war, and there was insufficient
money to fund it. The British bankers, knowing they had him over
a barrel, agreed to lend him money only at 24 to 36% interest,
highly usurious rates that would have bankrupted the North.
... With a Treasury that was completely broke ... authorized the
government to issue its own paper fiat money... popularly called
"Greenbacks" because they were printed on the back with
green ink [a feature the dollar retains today]. They were basically
just receipts acknowledging work done or goods delivered, which
could be traded in the community for an equivalent value of goods
or services. The Greenbacks represented man-hours rather than
borrowed gold... Over 400 million Greenback dollars were printed
and used to pay soldiers and government employees, and to buy
supplies for the war."

Ellen Brown in her book "Web
of Debt"

"President Abraham Lincoln
used the powers of the Constitution to convince Congress to authorize
the issue of interest-free Legal Tender Notes in the amount of
$150 million ... backed by the Full Faith and Credit of the United
States Government.
Under Lincoln, the Legal Tender Notes were issued by the US Treasury.
The Notes paid no interest but were to be used for "all debts
public and private except duties on imports and interest on the
public debt. They came to be nicknamed "Greenbacks"
for their distinctive design and color.
During the course of the Civil War, the volume of these government-authorized
Greenbacks in circulation was increased to $450 million.
... The Greenbacks allowed Lincoln to finance war costs independent
of London or New York bankers who were demanding an exorbitantly
high interest rate - as high as between 24% and even 36%. Lincoln's
Greenbacks financed the war and avoided entangling the Union in
large war debts to the private bankers, something that made him
bitter enemies in London and New York banking circles.
... Evidence that has emerged about the assassination of Lincoln
at the end of the Civil War all points to the hand of the House
of Rothschild and London City bankers."

F. William Engdahl in his book
"Gods of Money"

"If this mischievous financial
policy [Lincoln's government-issued, interest-free Greenbacks],
which has its origin in North America, shall become permanent,
then the Government will furnish its own money without cost. It
will pay off all debts and be without debt. It will have all the
money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous
without precedent in the history of the world. The brains, and
wealth of all countries will go to North America."

editorial in the London Times,
explaining the Bank of England's attitude toward President Abraham
Lincoln's Greenbacks, 1863

"Get Congress to pass a
bill authorizing the printing of full legal tender treasury notes
... and pay your soldiers with them and go ahead and win the war
with them also.... The people or anyone else will not have any
choice in the matter, if you make them full legal tender. They
will have the full sanction of the government and be just as good
as any money; as Congress is given the express right by the Constitution.

Colonel Dick Taylor to President
Abraham Lincoln about how to finance the Civil War

"Because of the continuing
need to fund the Union Army during the Civil War, President Lincoln
allowed the National Bank Act to be passed by Congress. The new
national banks would operate under a tax-free status, and have
a monopoly to create the new form of money - bank notes. As a
result, the entire U.S. money supply would be created out of debt
by bankers buying U.S. government bonds, and issuing them for
reserves for banks notes."

from the documentary "The
Money Masters"

"Abraham Lincoln, the martyred
Emancipator of the Slaves, was assassinated through the machinations
of a group representative of the International bankers who feared
the United States President's national credit ambitions - and
the plot was hatched in Toronto and Montreal.
... There was only one group in the world at that time who could
finance anything they cared to attempt without regard to cost,
and who had any reason to desire the death of Lincoln.
They were the men opposed to his national currency program, and
who had fought him throughout the whole of the Civil War on his
policy of greenback currency.
They were the men interested in the establishment of the Gold
Standard money system and the right of the bankers to manage the
currency and credit of every nation in the world.
With Lincoln out of the way they were able to proceed with that
plan, and did proceed with it in the United States. Within eight
years after Lincoln's assassination, silver was demonetized, and
the Gold Standard money system set up in the United States."

"The hard times which occurred
after the Civil War could have been avoided if the Greenback legislation
had continued as President Lincoln had intended. Instead, there
were a series of money panics - what we call recessions - which
put pressure on Congress to enact legislation to put the banking
system under centralized control. Eventually the Federal Reserve
Act was passed on December 23, 1913."

Theodore R. Thoren and Richard
F. Warner in 'The Truth in Money Book' - from the documentary
"The Money Masters"

"When President Lincoln
took office the National Debt amounted to $100,000,000 - and the
Treasury was practically pout of funds.
... When the banks refused to loan the government money, except
at extremely high rates of interest, Lincoln was faced with a
financial disaster. To meet this impending crisis, a bill was
sent to Congress which resulted in the Act of February 25, 1862,
one of the landmarks in the history of American finance. Its main
provision authorized the issuance of $150,000,000 legal-tender
United States Notes. These later became known as Lincoln Greenbacks.
Two more issues of the same sum of these legal-tender notes, amounting
to $300,000,000 were made on July 11, 1862 and on January 17,
1863 - making a grand total of $450,000,000 in all! Lincoln had
met the monetary crisis, to the sore displeasure of the bankers
who never received a cent of interest or taxes on this United
States money. The bankers were soon to get their revenge!
... The Times of London stated: 'If that mischievous financial
policy, which had its origin in the North American Republic should
become indurated down to a fixture, then that government will
furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debts
and be without a debt. It will have all the money necessary to
carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous beyond precedent
in the history of the civilized governments of the world. The
brains and the wealth of all countries will go to North America.
That government must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy
on the globe.'
... Infuriated by Abraham Lincoln's courageous stand in favor
of a constitutional money system [Lincoln Greenbacks], the infamous
Hazard Circular was written by the Internationalists and distributed
among American bankers. It stated:
'Slavery is likely to be abolished by war power. This, I and my
European friends are in favor of, because slavery is but the owning
of labor, and carries with it the care of the laborers, while
the European plan ... is that capital money lenders shall control
labour by controlling wages.
The great debt that Capitalists [the bankers] will see is made
out of the war, must be used to control the value of money. To
accomplish this, government bonds [with interest being paid to
the bankers] must be used as a banking basis. We are now waiting
for the secretary of the treasury to make that recommendation.
It will not allow Greenbacks, as they are called, to circulate
as money for any length of time as we cannot control that. But
we can control the bonds, and through them, the banking issues.'
The campaign for the passage of the National Banking Act of 1863,
which delegated to private corporation the all-powerful right
to issue our money, was heavily financed by the International
Bankers. It passed Congress and became law. The new Act gave the
[private] banks the power to issue currency (paper money)."

Des Griffin in his book "Fourth
Reich of the Rich"

LYING FOR EMPIRE

"Americans live in a matrix
of lies. They seldom encounter a truthful statement. There is
no evidence that Americans can any longer tell the difference
between the truth and a lie. "

Paul Craig Roberts

"Lies dominate every policy
discussion, every political decision. The most successful people
in America are liars... The endless lies have created a culture
of delusion.
The beliefs of many Americans, perhaps a majority, are comprised
of lies. These beliefs have become emotional crutches, and Americans
will fight to defend the lies that they believe. The inability
of Americans to accept facts that are contrary to their beliefs
is the reason the country is leaderless and will remain so. Unless
scales fall from Americans' eyes, Americans are doomed."

Paul Craig Roberts

"The incentive to speak
the truth and the reward for doing so are very weak. And not just
for a writer, but also for academics and experts who can make
far more money by lying than by telling the truth... It is a very
lucrative career to testify as an expert in civil lawsuits. It
is part of America's romance with the lie that experts purchased
by the opposing sides in a lawsuit battle it out as gladiators
seeking the jury's thumbs-up."

Paul Craig Roberts

"In Mein Kampf, Hitler
explained the believability of the Big Lie as compared to the
small lie: "In the simplicity of their minds, people more
readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since
they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would
be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never
come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they
would not believe that others could have such impudence. Even
though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly
to their minds, they will still doubt and continue to think that
there may be some other explanation."

Paul Craig Roberts

"By the time facts become
clear, people are emotionally wedded to the beliefs planted by
the propaganda and find it a wrenching experience to free themselves.
It is more comfortable, instead, to denounce the truth-tellers
than the liars whom the truth-tellers expose."

Paul Craig Roberts

MACHIAVELLI, NICCOLO
(1469-1527)author of "THE PRINCE"

"Niccolò Machiavelli was an
Italian historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist
and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance. He was for
many years an official in the Florentine Republic, with responsibilities
in diplomatic and military affairs. He was a founder of modern
political science, and more specifically political ethics. He
wrote his masterpiece "The Prince" after the Medici
had recovered power and he no longer held a position of responsibility
in Florence. His moral and ethical beliefs led to the creation
of the word machiavellianism which has since been used to describe
one of the three dark triad personalities in psychology."

Wikipedia

"Men ought either to be
well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of
lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore
the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind
that one does not stand in fear of revenge."

Niccolo Machiavelli in 'The Prince"

"War cannot be avoided;
it can only be postponed to the other's advantage."

Niccolo Machiavelli in 'The Prince"

"When a newly acquired
State has been accustomed to live under its own laws and in freedom,
there are three methods whereby it may be held. The first is to
destroy it; the second, to go and reside there in person; the
third, to suffer it to live on under its own laws, subjecting
it to a tribute, and entrusting its government to a few of the
inhabitants who will keep the rest your friends. Such a Government,
since it is the creature of the new Prince, will see that it cannot
stand without his protection and support, and must therefore do
all it can to maintain him; and a city accustomed to live in freedom,
if it is to be preserved at all, is more easily controlled through
its own citizens than in any other way."

Niccolo Machiavelli in 'The Prince"

"Whoever desires to found
a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men
are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever
they may find occasion for it."

Niccolo Machiavelli in 'The Prince"

"Wisdom consists of knowing
how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the
lesser evil."

Niccolo Machiavelli in 'The Prince"

"It ought to be remembered
that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous
to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the
lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the
innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the
old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well
under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents,
who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity
of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have
had a long experience of them."

Niccolo Machiavelli in 'The Prince"

"A wise man ought always
to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those
who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs,
at least it will savour of it."

Niccolo Machiavelli in 'The Prince"

"He who seeks to deceive
will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived."

Niccolo Machiavelli in 'The Prince"

"The new ruler must determine
all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict
them once and for all."

Niccolo Machiavelli in 'The Prince"

"Never attempt to win by
force what can be won by deception."

Niccolo Machiavelli in 'The Prince"

"He who becomes a Prince
through the favour of the people should always keep on good terms
with them; which it is easy for him to do, since all they ask
is not to be oppressed"

Niccolo Machiavelli in 'The Prince"

"A prince should have no
other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study
but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only
art that is necessary to one who commands."

Niccolo Machiavelli in 'The Prince"

"Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand,
for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you
appear to be, few really know what you are."

Niccolo Machiavelli in 'The Prince"

"Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we
must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved."

Niccolo Machiavelli in 'The Prince"

"There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery
than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by
speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth,
you lose their respect."

Niccolo Machiavelli in 'The Prince"

"The prince must consider
how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible
when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority
of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition
of a few, whom he can curb with ease in many ways."

Niccolo Machiavelli in 'The Prince"

"The first method for estimating
the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around
him."

Niccolo Machiavelli in 'The Prince"

"The best fortress is to
be found in the love of the people, for although you may have
fortresses they will not save you if you are hated by the people."

Niccolo Machiavelli in 'The Prince"

"He who builds on the people,
builds on the mud"

Niccolo Machiavelli in 'The Prince"

"Any man who tries to be
good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number
who are not good. Hence a prince who wants to keep his authority
must learn how not to be good, and use that knowledge, or refrain
from using it, as necessity requires."

Niccolo Machiavelli in 'The Prince"

"He who wishes to be obeyed
must know how to command"

Niccolo Machiavelli in 'The Prince"

MAINSTREAM MEDIACORPORATE MEDIA / ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA

A global oligarchy controls the
major media worldwide.
These media mega-corporations own each others stock, and in turn
are owned and controlled by an oligarchy of transnational corporations,
international bankers and European dynastic families.

In the United States, six global
media corporations control 90% of what we see, hear and read.

The oligarchy controls the major
internet search engine and the major internet social media site.

GOOGLE
FACEBOOK

The oligarchy controls the major
print and broadcast media around the world, including:

NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON POST
REUTERS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BBC (BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION)
THE TIMES OF LONDON

The oligarchy also controls the
most influential alternative media news sources.

"There is no such thing, at
this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent
press. You know it and I know it.
There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions,
and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear
in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of
the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar
salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish
as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking
for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in
one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation
would be gone.
The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie
outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon,
and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You
know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent
press?
We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We
are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our
talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property
of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

John Swinton, preeminent New York
journalist, at a press banquet,1880

"A cynical, mercenary,
demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself."

Joseph Pulitzer

"The main media bias is
in favor of the thieves who stole our country and economy, and
own the mainstream media companies. The omnipresent mainstream
media is the greatest weapon of oppression humanity has ever known."

David DeGraw

"We are grateful to the
Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine, and other
great publications whose directors have attended our meetings
and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years.
It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the
world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during
those years. But the world is now more sophisticated and prepared
to march towards a world government. The supra-national sovereignty
of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable
to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."

David Rockefeller - Council on
Foreign Relations, June 1991

"To keep information from
the public is the function of the corporate media."

Gore Vidal

"The problem is not that
a computer network [Internet] offers an alternative to the information
aristocracy. The true crisis is that neither the news media nor
the government has enough credibility to be accepted as either
truthful or impartial on their own."

military writer William M. Arkin

"One of the best kept secrets
is the degree to which a handful of giant conglomerates, all belonging
to the secret Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations,
NATO, the Club of Rome, and the Trilateral Commission, control
the world's flow of information. They determine what we see on
television, hear on the radio and read in newspapers, magazines,
books, or on the Internet."

Daniel Estulin in his book "The
Bilderberg Group"

"In the late 1940s and
early 1950s, Operation Mockingbird was a secret CIA effort to
influence and control the American media, and thus to influence
and control the information received by the American people.
... Frank Wisner, the director of the Office of Policy Coordination,
a covert operations unit created under the National Security Council,
recruited Philip Graham of the Washington Post to head the project
within the media industry. By the early 1950s, Wisner 'owned'
respected members of The New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other
communications vehicles.
... Among the executives who lent their cooperation to the CIA
were Williarn Paley of the Columbia Broadcasting System, Henry
Luce of Tirne Inc., Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times,
Barry Bingham Sr. of the LouisviIle Courier_Journal, and James
Copley of the Copley News Service. Other organizations which cooperated
with the CIA include the American Broadcasting Company, the National
Broadcasting Company, the Associated Press, United Press International,
Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps_Howard, Newsweek magazine,
the Mutual Broadcasting System, the Miami Herald and the old Saturday
Evening Post and New York Herald Tribune.
... Contrary to the notion that the CIA insidiously infiltrated
the journalistic community, there is ample evidence that America's
leading publishers and news executives allowed themselves and
their organizations to become handmaidens to the intelligence
services.
... In 1975, the idea that the corporate media would lie and that
the CIA would push fake stories for propaganda purposes was shocking
but, in 2017, not so much.
Indeed, many things were shocking in 1975 that scarcely appear
on the radar screen today. This is how far Americans have come
down a path of acceptance of the loss of rights or even the appearance
of honesty. This says nothing of the massive amount of control
the CIA and other related interests have over the entertainment
industry."

Brandon Turbeville, 2017

"If you don't read the
newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're
misinformed."

Mark Twain

"Most newspapers are part
of huge conglomerates, and the policy that comes down is that
you don't rock any boats. You can't make the government upset
because the value of the company is the broadcast licenses, and
the government will not renew them, and we can't make our corporate
owners mad because they will fire us, and we can't make the advertisers
mad or they will pull their advertising. So the media can't say
anything that will upset the power structure. And that's what
had happened to the press."

Paul Craig Roberts

"What [the press] do is
they tell you lies; lies they already know you want to hear. Just
as politicians look to polls to determine their policies, letting
poorly-informed people lead them on important issues, the press
can figure out what its readers or viewers believe, and make a
hell of a living pandering to their egos and telling them that
they're smart."

Allan Uthman, 2007

"News Corp, Disney, Viacom,
Time Warner, CBS and Comcast own 90% of the TV stations, radio
stations, movies, magazines and newspapers that Americans rely
on for news and entertainment."

Michael Snyder, 2017

"The main [media] bias
is in favor of the thieves who stole our country and economy,
and own the mainstream media companies. The omnipresent mainstream
media is the greatest weapon of oppression humanity has ever known."

David DeGraw

"The major news media that
serve at the pleasure of a commercial oligarchy that pays them,
and pays them handsomely, for their pretense of speaking truth
to power... The prominent figures in our contemporary Washington
press corps regard themselves as government functionaries, enabling
and codependent."

Lewis H. Lapham

"Selling fear to the American
people has become a mainstay of the press and of both political
parties in this country. Taking a "tough on crime" stance,
particularly in a climate of perpetual fear created by the "war
on drugs" and the "war on terrorism," is always
a politically safe posture... By focusing on crime, attention
is effectively directed away from more divisive issues on which
a politician might have to take a stand that would cost them votes.
Meanwhile, a fearful populace continues to surrender their civil
rights and constitutional protections at an alarming rate, so
that their government may protect them from the rampant criminality
of the masses."

David McGowan in his book "Derailing
Democracy"

"The success of print and
TV pundits is based on allying with a prominent point of view
or interest group and serving it."

Paul Craig Roberts

"Images sent over thousands
of miles, well-lit anchors who seem alert to everything of importance
taking place in our world, field reporters in far-flung places
who pop up and respond instantly to the anchors and deliver close-up
accounts of vital events.
And the same important faces of government leaders who, day after
day, are struggling to improve our destiny against great odds,
against intransigent enemies of progress.
All this is delivered to us in the space of a few minutes, each
night, like clockwork.
The television news presents that little show of magic which the
people sorely need. The need never dies. It's eternal.
The television anchors can be obvious oafs, hucksters, cheap con
artists.
They can twist the truth, burn it, hide it, step on it, reverse
it; it doesn't matter."

Jon Rappoport

"For the first time in
human history, there is a concerted strategy to manipulate global
perception. And the mass media are operating as its compliant
assistants, failing both to resist it and to expose it.
The sheer ease with which this machinery has been able to do its
work reflects a creeping structural weakness which now afflicts
the production of our news."

Nick Davies, British investigative
journalist

"The mainstream media is
a conglomerate of collective corporate thought, designed to make
you ignorant and unaware of the realities of the world, of the
important issues, and to hide in the shadows the sacredly guarded
truths of power. Our mainstream media ­ the large newspapers,
radio and TV news stations ­ are dominated by billion dollar
corporations, whose boards of directors reflect the 'who's who'
of the corporate, political, and financial elite, with former
government officials, industrialists, and bankers controlling
the dispersal of information and the perspectives we are given."

Andrew Gavin Marshall

"By far the most valuable
... associations, according to CIA officials have been with the
New York Times, CBS and Time Inc... Over the years, the [CBS]
network provided cover for CIA employees, including at least one
well-known foreign correspondent and several stringers... A high-level
CIA official says that the New York Times provided cover for about
ten CIA operatives between 1950 and 1966.
... [Joseph] Alsop is one of more than 400 American journalists
who in the past twenty-five years have secretly carried out assignments
for the Central Intelligence Agency, according to documents on
file at CIA headquarters. Journalists provided a full range of
clandestine services--from simple intelligence-gathering to serving
as go-betweens with spies in Communist countries."

journalist Carl Bernstein, Rolling
Stone, 1977

"Americans want to have
their beliefs vindicated more than they want the truth."

Paul Craig Roberts

"By far the most valuable
... associations, according to CIA officials have been with the
New York Times, CBS and Time Inc... Over the years, the [CBS]
network provided cover for CIA employees, including at least one
well-known foreign correspondent and several stringers... A high-level
CIA official says that the New York Times provided cover for about
ten CIA operatives between 1950 and 1966.
... [Joseph] Alsop is one of more than 400 American journalists
who in the past twenty-five years have secretly carried out assignments
for the Central Intelligence Agency, according to documents on
file at CIA headquarters. Journalists provided a full range of
clandestine services--from simple intelligence-gathering to serving
as go-betweens with spies in Communist countries."

journalist Carl Bernstein, Rolling
Stone, 1977

"We hear about the occasions
when there are differences between the mainstream media and the
government. What we don't hear about are the 95 percent of occasions
where the mainstream media faithfully propagate disinformation
stories which are often planted by the CIA, sometimes planted
abroad in newspapers that they may own or that are friendly to
them."

Michael Parenti, 1988

"I've been a journalist
for about 25 years, and I was educated to lie, to betray, and
not to tell the truth to the public.
But seeing right now within the last months how the German and
American media tries to bring war to the people in Europe, to
bring war to Russia - this is a point of no return and I'm going
to stand up and say it is not right what I have done in the past,
to manipulate people, to make propaganda against Russia, and it
is not right what my colleagues do and have done in the past because
they are bribed to betray the people, not only in Germany, all
over Europe."

Dr. Udo Ulfkotte, journalist and
German political scientist, 2014
[in his book and on public television stated that while working
as a journalist he was forced to print the work of intelligence
agents under his own name]

"The powers behind this
New World Order system are those of the global banks and financial
institutions, the military-industrial complex, the oil and energy
giants, the biotech and pharmaceutical conglomerates and the powerful
media and communications giants, which fabricate the news and
overtly influence the course of world events by blatantly distorting
the facts."

Michel Chossudovsky in his book
" America's War on Terrorism"

"Mainstream journalists
in the United States often function more like a fourth branch
of government than a feisty fourth estate. If anything, the patterns
of media bias that characterize sycophantic reporting in "peacetime"
are amplified during a war or a national security crisis.
Since the tragic events of September 11, the separation between
press and state has dwindled nearly to the vanishing point."

Martin A. Lee in his book "September
11 and the US War"

"Can anyone name a single
daily newspaper in the United States that is unequivocally opposed
to US foreign policy? Can anyone name a single television network
in the United States that is unequivocally opposed to US foreign
policy? Is there a single daily newspaper or TV network in the
entire United States that has earned the label "opposition
media"?"

William Blum, 2007

"The factual arguments
clearly establish the possibility of controlled demolition of
the WTC buildings on September 11, 2001, yet, there is almost
zero coverage in the corporate media in the US. This is top down
corporate censorship pure and simple. Even if other scientists
can be found to disagree with the study, the policy of ignoring
the topic inside the corporate media is relatively absolute...
Perhaps the mainstream science journalists left their critical
thinking skills at home and gave the scientific method the day
off. Or maybe the real conspiracy exists within the boardrooms
of the corporate mainstream media."

Peter Phillips, 2009

"They were astonished to
find, after reading the newspapers and watching television, that
almost all the opinions on all the vital issues were the same.
One Russian writer asked:
In our country to get that result we have a dictatorship. We imprison
people. We torture them. Here you have none of that. How do you
do it? What's the secret?"

a story about Russian writers touring
the United States

"The main shortcoming of
the establishment media lies in errors of omission, much more
than errors of commission. It's not that they tell bald lies so
much as it is that they leave out parts of stories or entire stories,
or historical reminders, which if included might put the issue
in a whole new light, in a way not compatible with their political
biases."

William Blum in his book "Freeing
the World to Death"

"As news organizations
are increasingly driven by a bottom-line mentality, the news we
get becomes more and more sensational. What is the difference
between Time and Newsweek? Between ABC, NBC, and CBS News? Between
the Washington Post and the New York Times? For all practical
purposes, none. The concentration of media power means that Americans
increasingly get their information from a few sources who decide
what is "news."

Oliver Stone

"The Washington press corps
has grown closer and closer to its sources. It's to the point
where Brit Hume, the ABC correspondent at the White House, plays
tennis with George Bush. Tom Friedman of the New York Times is
very close with Jim Baker. You find these relationships are so
close that reporters don't challenge the subjects of their stories,
they just tell you what the government is saying. In other words,
they've become stenographers for power and not journalists."

David Barsamian in his book "Stenographers
to Power"

"The limitations of professional
journalism, the influence of owners, the linkages of media institutions
to the power structure of society, and the internalized presuppositions,
have led to what can only be characterized as a palpable double
standard in coverage of the U.S. role in the world.
... The U.S. news media, including our most respected newspapers
like the New York Times, turn a blind eye to U.S. violations of
core international law, having no qualms about playing up the
violations of adversaries. It would be nearly impossible for the
coverage to be more unprincipled."

John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney
in their book "Tragedy & Farce"

"The Wall Street Journal,
probably the most widely read newspaper in the country, heavily
favors the conservative side on any and all questions of public
policy, and both the Washington Post and the New York Times fortify
their op-ed pages with columnists who strongly defend the established
order-William Safire and David Brooks in the Times; Charles Krauthammer,
George Will, and Richard Harwood in the Post. The vast bulk of
the nation's radio talk shows (commanding roughly 80 percent of
the audience) reflect a reactionary bias, and so do all but one
or two of the television talk shows that deal with political topics
on PBS, CNN, and CNBC."

Lewis Lapham in his book "Gag
Rule"

"As the new corporations
began taking over the press, something called "professional
journalism" was invented. To attract big advertisers, the
new corporate press had to appear respectable, pillars of the
establishment-objective, impartial, balanced... in order to be
professional, journalists had to ensure that news and opinion
were dominated by official sources, and that has not changed.
Go through the New York Times on any day, and check the sources
of the main political stories-domestic and foreign-you'll find
they're dominated by government and other established interests.
That is the essence of professional journalism. "

John Pilger, 2007

"Americans have become perfect
subjects for George Orwell's Big Brother. They sit stupidly in
front of the TV news or the New York Times or Washington Post
and absorb the lies fed to them."

Paul Craig Roberts, 2008

"Bilderberg is a powerful
assembly of the world's leading financiers, industrialists and
political operatives. It includes such internationalists as banker
David Rockefeller, heads of state in Europe and high officials
of the U.S. government, White House, Defense, State, Congress
and others.
... High officials of The Washington Post, The New York Times,
and Los Angeles Times and of all three major networks have attended
Bilderberg many times, on the promise of secrecy, to report nothing
and to not use the word "Bilderberg.

Jim Tucker's Bilderberg Diary

"A problem that has been
facing American mainstream journalism for a long time has mainly
to do with access. They want to get their calls returned by the
big guys at Goldman Sachs. So they develop a relationship in which
the journalists themselves become insiders. Too often, consequently,
they do little else than rewrite the press releases they are handed.
This has cost America a lot. Mainstream journalists of The New
York Times and elsewhere were complicit insiders both in the lead-up
to the Iraq war and in the lead-up to the financial meltdown."

Arianna Huffington, 2009

"What we have now is the
Reagan-Bush press corp. It's the press corp that they helped create
- that they created partly by purging those, or encouraging the
purging of those who were not going along, but it was ultimately
the editors and the news executives that did the purging... The
people who succeeded and did well were those who didn't stand
up, who didn't write the big stories, who looked the other way
when history was happening in front of them, and went along either
consciously or just by cowardice with the deception of the American
people."

Robert Parry, 1993

"The CIA developed covert
relationships with about 50 American journalists or employees
of U.S. media organizations. According to one CIA operative, "You
could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple
hundred dollars a month." The agency arranged for the publication
of books to be read in America, and for at least one of these
works to be reviewed favorably in the New York Times."

Peter Dale Scott in his book "The
Road to 9/11"

"During its first fifty
years of existence, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) was
almost never mentioned by any of the moguls of the mass media.
When you realize that the membership of the CFR includes top executives
from the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles
Times, the Knight Newspaper chain, NBC, CBS, Time, Life, Fortune,
Business Week, US News and World Report, and many others, you
can be sure that such anonymity is not accidental."

Gary Allen

The Council on Foreign Relations
(CFR} control or own major newspapers, magazines, radio and television
networks [and] the most powerful companies in the book publishing
business. (The Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Post,
and LA Times have their own wire services, which most mainstream
news outlets use.)

Admiral Chester Ward, former CFR
member

"The story of an attempted
takeover of executive power in the United States [the plot to
overthrow Franklin Roosevelt] was suppressed, not only by parties
directly interested, but also by several institutions usually
regarded as protectors of constitutional liberty and freedom of
inquiry. Among the groups suppressing information were (1) the
Congress of the United States, (2) the press, notably Time [magazine]
and The New York Times, and (3) the White House itself. It is
also notable that no academic inquiry has been conducted into
what is surely one of the more ominous events in recent American
history."

Antony C. Sutton in his book "Wall
Street and FDR"

"By far the most valuable
... associations, according to CIA officials have been with the
New York Times, CBS and Time Inc... Over the years, the [CBS]
network provided cover for CIA employees, including at least one
well-known foreign correspondent and several stringers... A high-level
CIA official with a prodigious memory says that the New York Times
provided cover for about ten CIA operatives between 1950 and 1966."

journalist Carl Bernstein in a
Rolling Stone article "The CIA and the Media", 1977

MEDIA

"The problem is not that
a computer network [Internet] offers an alternative to the information
aristocracy. The true crisis is that neither the news media nor
the government has enough credibility to be accepted as either
truthful or impartial on their own."

military writer William M. Arkin

"Americans are too broadly
underinformed to digest nuggets of information that seem to contradict
what they know of the world . Instead, news channels prefer to
feed Americans a constant stream of simplified information, all
of which fits what they already know. That way they don't have
to devote more air time or newsprint space to explanations or
further investigations. Politicians and the media have conspired
to infantilize, to dumb down, the American public. At heart, politicians
don't believe that Americans can handle complex truths, and the
news media, especially television news, basically agrees."

Tom Fenton, former CBS foreign
correspondent

"The media are a pitiful lot.
They don't give us any history, they don't give us any analysis,
they don't tell us anything. They don't raise the most basic questions:
Who has the most weapons of mass destruction in the world by far?
Who has used weapons of mass destruction more than any other nation?
Who has killed more people in this world with weapons of mass
destruction than any other nation? The answer: the United States."

Howard Zinn

"The use of social media
to control a targeted nation's information space, and use it as
a means of carrying out sociopolitical subversion and even regime
change reached its pinnacle in 2011 during the US-engineered "Arab
Spring."
Portrayed at first as spontaneous demonstrations organized organically
over Facebook and other social media platforms, it is now revealed
in articles like the New York Times', "U.S. Groups Helped
Nurture Arab Uprisings," that the US government had trained
activists years ahead of the protests, with Google and Facebook
participating directly in making preparations.
Opposition fronts funded and supported by the US State Department's
National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and its subsidiaries Freedom
House, International Republican Institute (IRI), and National
Democratic Institute (NDI) were invited to several summits where
executives and technical support teams from Google and Facebook
provided them with the game plans they would execute in 2011 in
coordination with US and European media who also attended the
summits.
The end result was the virtual weaponization of social media,
serving as cover for what was a long-planned, regional series
of coups including heavily armed militants who eventually overthrew
the governments of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, with Syria
now locked in 6 years of war as a result."

Tony Cartalucci, 2017

"The media's the most powerful
entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty
and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they
control the minds of the masses."

Malcolm X

"In America, we grew up
thinking that the people that we see on the nightly news are journalists.
But, there is no journalism happening there, only script reading.
That is understood by anyone with a sliver of common sense, and
the objectivity to realize that their newsperson is basically
an actor."

Charlie Robinson, in his book "The
Octopus of Global Control", 2017

"Any dictator would admire
the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."

Noam Chomsky

"What the press do is they
tell you lies, lies they already know you want to hear. The press
can figure out what its readers or viewers believe, and make a
hell of a living pandering to their egos and telling them that
they're smart. They lie and tell the audience they are right,
and they never have to change your mind about anything. And the
audience rewards them, lauding them and paying them money to keep
hearing those sweet, self-serving lies."

Allan Uthman

"Americans are too broadly
underinformed to digest nuggets of information that seem to contradict
what they know of the world . Instead, news channels prefer to
feed Americans a constant stream of simplified information, all
of which fits what they already know. That way they don't have
to devote more air time or newsprint space to explanations or
further investigations. Politicians and the media have conspired
to infantilize, to dumb down, the American public. At heart, politicians
don't believe that Americans can handle complex truths, and the
news media, especially television news, basically agrees."

Tom Fenton, former CBS foreign
correspondent

"Pravda and Izvestia in
the former Soviet Union would have been hard-pressed to surpass
the American media in their subservience to the official agenda.
They have abandoned the notion of objectivity or even the idea
of providing a public space where problems are discussed and debated.
It's a scandal that reveals the existence of a system of propaganda,
not of serious media so essential in a democratic society."

Edward Herman, professor of Political
Science at the University of Pennsylvania

"The American people have
become some of the most naïve and gullible folks in the world,
because their press enables it, almost encourages it, with its
undue and sycophantic deference to the government."

Cenk Uygur, 2008

"Those who have put out
the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness."

John Milton

"In March, 1915, the J.P.
Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest,
and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up
in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential
newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them
to control generally the policy of the daily pressThey found it
was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest
papers. An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was
bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for
each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding
the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies,
and other things of national and international nature considered
vital to the interests of the purchasers."

Congressman Oscar Callaway (TX),
Congressional Record of February 9, 1917

"Reporters will not report
their own insights or contrary evaluations of the official 9/11
story, because to question the government story about 9/11 is
to question the very foundations of our entire modern belief system
regarding our government, our country, and our way of life. To
be charged with questioning these foundations is far more serious
than being labeled a disgruntled conspiracy nut or an anti-government
traitor, or even being sidelined or marginalized within an academic,
government-service, or literary career. To question the official
9/11 story is simply and fundamentally revolutionary."

9/11 and American Empire : Intellectuals
Speak Out
EDited by David Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott

"If advertisers, and corporate
sponsors generally, tend to support media which boost their message,
and these media consequently tend to flourish relative to those
not so supported, then we have one example of a tight system of
control that does not at all require a conspiracy theory but simply
the operation of market forces. For advertiser control clearly
extends to the detail of the contents and tone of media. "

David Edwards in his book "Burning
All Illusions"

"In the press, which is
owned by rich men, the interests of the investing minority are
always identified with those of the nation as a whole. Constantly
repeated statements come to be accepted as truths. Innocent and
ignorant, most newspaper readers are convinced that the private
interests of the rich are really public interests and become indignant
whenever these interests are menaced by a foreign power, intervening
on behalf of its investing minority. The interest at stake are
the interests of the few; but the public opinion which demands
the protection of these interests is often a genuine expression
of mass emotion. The many really feel and believe that the dividends
of the few are worth fighting for."

Aldous Huxley in his book "Ends
and Means", 1937

MEDIA MATRIX

"By the second decade of
the twenty-first century virtually all news and information delivered
to the American public, including publishing, movies, music, TV,
and networks is controlled by a few owners of only six multinational
corporations. These six conglomerates are General Electric (NBC),
Time Warner, Disney, News Corporation, Bertelsmann of Germany,
and Viacom (former owner of CBS). This media monopoly may not
tell the public how to think, but it certainly sets the agenda
for what to think about. The monopoly creates an electronic "matrix"
all around us.
... Topics such as climate change, gender identity ambiguity,
anti-gun legislation, harmful prescription drugs and vaccines,
and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) continually fill the
media owned by these corporate giants only because such issues
keep society divided and in conflict, which serves to divert public
attention from the true rulers of the world."

Jim Marrs in his book 'The Illuminati'

"The news and truth are
not the same thing."

American journalist Walter Lippmann
(1889-1974)

"Even open-minded people
will often find themselves unable to take seriously the likes
of [Noam] Chomsky, [Edward] Herman, [Howard] Zinn and [Susan]
George on first encountering their work; it just does not seem
possible that we could be so mistaken in what we believe. The
individual may assume that these writers must be somehow joking,
wildly over-stating the case, paranoid, or have some sort of axe
to grind. We may actually become angry with them for telling us
these terrible things about our society and insist that this simply
'can't be true'. It takes real effort to keep reading, to resist
the reassuring messages of the mass media and be prepared to consider
the evidence again."

David Edwards - Burning All Illusions

"You can't believe a word
the American media says. If they say anything correct, it's just
an accident."

Paul Craig Roberts

"Most Americans have no
idea that what we are fed by the news media is nothing more than
a portrayal of what powerful corporations want us to believe,
that what happens to pass as education is as often as not mere
propaganda, that what we learn in church may have very little
or nothing to do with the truth, that what our parents teach us
may be nothing more than an accumulation of their own personal
biases, no doubt a rather subtle modification of what they were
taught by their parents. And through such a process, governments
and nations around the world wield control as to what their citizens,
believe, value, and do."

Doug Soderstrom

"What most Americans believe
to be 'Public Opinion' is in reality carefully crafted and scripted
propaganda designed to elicit a desired behavioral response from
the public."

Ken Adachi

"Google is destroying the
most glorious gift humanity was granted in the last 300 years
[the internet]. The future under Google is a fascist dystopia,
their way or the highway, no room for dissidents, no room for
free speech. Google is a boot stomping on your face for eternity.
Google is the deep state. Forget about conventional wars, forget
about spies, forget about intelligence agencies, forget about
all of that. It's all about the internet and Google running the
internet. They decide how you feel, what you think, what information
you can and can't look at, and ultimately who does and doesn't
have a voice."

David Bowie's final message written
weeks before he died, 2015

"Our job is to give people
not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have."

Richard Salant, former President
of CBS News

"There is an Establishment
history, an official history, which dominates history textbooks,
trade publishing, the media and library shelves. The official
line always assumes that events such as wars, revolutions, scandals,
assassinations, are more or less random unconnected events. By
definition events can never be the result of a conspiracy, they
can never result from premeditated planned group action.
... Woe betide any book or author that falls outside the official
guidelines. Foundation support is not there. Publishers get cold
feet. Distribution is hit and miss, or non-existent."

Antony Sutton in his book "America's
Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull and
Bones"

"During times of universal
deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

George Orwell

"If the war lies were not
all over the media, people would not learn them in the first place.
If the corrections were heard over and over again, they would
get through. If our communications system allowed the presentation
of a variety of voices and viewpoints and feared promoting falsehoods
more than it feared being insufficiently militaristic, we wouldn't
need to investigate the widespread phenomenon of engaged citizens
certain of their beliefs but completely deluded."

David Swanson in his book "War
Is A Lie"

"Those who can make you
believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

Voltaire

"Perhaps the most basic
reason Americans should read [Noam] Chomsky's work today, is simply
to understand the real world in which they live, that which is
obscured by their leaders and the U.S. mass media."

Fred Branfman

"One of the best kept secrets
is the degree to which a handful of giant conglomerates, all belonging
to the secret Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations,
NATO, the Club of Rome, and the Trilateral Commission, control
the world's flow of information. They determine what we see on
television, hear on the radio and read in newspapers, magazines,
books, or on the Internet."

Daniel Estulin in his book "The
Bilderberg Group"

"We're speaking here of
people who get virtually all their news from the shock-and-awe
tabloid weeklies, AM-radio talk shows, and television news programs
which, because of marketplace pressure, aim low in order to reach
the widest possible audience, resulting in short programs with
lots of commercials, weather, sports, and entertainment. These
news sources don't necessarily have to explicitly state falsehoods
to produce distorted views; they need only channel to their audience
a continuous stream of statements from the government and conservative
"experts" justifying the war as if they were neutral
observers; ignore contrary views except when an expert is on hand
to ridicule them and label them "conspiracy theories";
and never put it all together in a coherent enlightening manner.
[There is a] constant drip-drip of one- sided information, from
sources who can be described as stenographers for the powers-that-be."

William Blum in his book "Freeing
the World to Death"

"Perhaps the most basic
reason Americans should read [Noam] Chomsky's work today, is simply
to understand the real world in which they live, that which is
obscured by their leaders and the U.S. mass media."

Fred Branfman

"The involvement of the
Rockefellers with the media has multiple implications. One is
that the Rockefeller gang's plans for monopolistic World Government
are never, but never, discussed in the machines of mass disinformation.
The media decides what the issues will be in the country."

Gary Allen in his book "The
Rockefeller File"

"We are grateful to the
Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine and other great
publications, whose directors have attended our meetings and respected
their promises of discretion for almost forty years."(He
went on to explain:)'It would have been impossible for us to develop
our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights
of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated
and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational
sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely
preferable to the national auto determination practiced in past
centuries."

David Rockefeller at the 1991 meeting
of the Bilderberg Group

"Journalists who participate
in The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer are some of the best-known political
pundits in the United States, such as Paul Gigot, David Gergen,
William Kristol and William Safire. All of them belong to the
Bilderberg Group, the CFR or the Trilateral Commission."

Daniel Estulin in is book "The
Bilderberg Group"

MEDICAL MAFIAthe big medicine and big pharma cabal

"Physicians learn to practice
a very drug-intensive style of medicine. Even when changes in
lifestyle would be more effective, doctors and their patients
often believe that for every ailment and discontent there is a
drug."

Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor
in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, 2015

"The U.S. currently has
the most aggressive vaccination schedule of any country on the
planet."

Melissa Melton, 2012

"The only type of research
that is funded and recognized is research on drugs. Research on
the causes of disease and non-interventions simply doesn't occur
in medical education."

T. Colin Campbell, The China Study,
2006

"The Center for Disease
Control [CDC] has known since 2001 that children exposed to thimerosal
in utero were 800 percent more likely to regress into autism.
This data was intentionally excluded from the CDC paper published
in the journal Pediatrics in an effort to disprove a thimerosal-autism
association.
... The CDC has known for a decade that children receiving the
MMR vaccines on schedule were nearly 300 percent more likely to
regress into autism compared to children whose parents decided
to withhold the vaccine until after the child was older."

Dr. Gary Null and Richard Gale,
2015

"The US childhood immunization
schedule requires 26 vaccine doses for infants aged less than
1 year, the most in the world, yet 33 nations have better IMRs
[Infant Mortality Rates]."

Julie Lévesque, 2016

"To a highly significant
degree, the CDC and the World Health Organization are PR agencies,
whose job is to convince the public that stepping up, rolling
up their sleeves, and submitting to shots containing germs and
toxic chemicals is the most natural and wise action possible."

Jon Rappoport, 2014

"Aluminum has been added
to vaccines since about 1926. Aluminum affects memory, cognition,
psychomotor control; it damages the blood brain barrier, activates
brain inflammation, depresses mitochondrial function and plenty
of research suggests it is a key player in the formation of the
amyloid "plaques" and tangles in the brains of Alzheimer's
patients. It's been implicated in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
and autism and demonstrated to induce allergy."

Celeste McGovern

"The American Medical Association
[AMA] not only opposes single payer healthcare. something supported
by 60% of doctors, but even opposed a weak public insurance option.
While not long ago it represented 70% of American doctors, it
is now down to 30%. Their callous disregard of the needs of patients
and the opinions of doctors is why they are a shell of an organization."

Kevin Zeese, 2009

"No one should be forced
to undergo a medical treatment without informed consent and without
their agreement to the treatment. We condemn the forced sterilization
of the '20s and '30s, the Tuskegee medical experiments infecting
black inmates, and the Nazi medicine that included involuntary
"Euthanasia," experimentation and sterilization. How
can we force vaccination without consent? Vaccination is a medical
treatment with risks including death. It is totally antithetical
to all ethics in medicine to mandate that risk to others.
... If you think the government has the right to forcibly vaccinate
people, for the good of society, what is to prevent them from
forcibly sterilizing people, or forcibly euthanizing people, or
forcibly implanting a tracking device, for the good of society?"

Lee Hieb, M.D.

"Over the past two decades
the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original
high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs. Now
primarily a marketing machine to sell drugs of dubious benefit,
this industry uses its wealth and power to co-opt every institution
that might stand in its way, including the US Congress, the FDA,
academic medical centers, and the medical profession itself."

Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor
in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, 2015

"Vaccines contain a vast
array of potentially dangerous ingredients, including antibiotics,
formaldehyde, monosodium glutamate (MSG), bovine fetal tissue,
polysorbate and heavy metals like aluminum and the mercury-containing
preservative thimerosal. When these are shot into the bloodstream,
they bypass the majority of the body's natural immune system which
resides in the gut."

Melissa Melton, 2012

"The CDC's own data reveals
a 340% increased risk of autism in African-American children following
the MMR vaccine."

Celeste McGovern

"The medical establishment
does not take kindly to the idea of a serious connection between
diet and cancer or for that matter, virtually any other disease.
Big Medicine in America is in the business of treating disease
with drugs and surgery after symptoms appear... The American Cancer
Society gives almost no credence to the idea that diet is linked
to cancer."

T. Colin Campbell, The China Study,
2006

"A 2014 report released
by the Council of Foreign Relations revealed that the most highly
vaccinated populations are also those with the greatest number
of outbreaks for those same infectious diseases. This was especially
the case for measles, mumps, rubella, polio and pertussis outbreaks.
The US, Canada, the European Union, Australia and New Zealand,
and Japan-each with the highest number of mandated vaccines-led
the list of nations."

Dr. Gary Null and Richard Gale,
2015

"The corporate health-care
system is set up to make money, not to care for sick people."

Lewis H. Lapham, 2006

"The problem is not just
pharmaceuticals and it's not just the the American Medical Association,
and the private insurers, Blue Cross/Blue Shield and so on. The
whole healthcare system now is dominated by for-profit corporations."

Robert Reich, 2009

"You are not threatened
with bankruptcy in Canada, Britain, Germany, France, Finland,
Norway, Sweden, Japan, Italy, Spain. In none of these countries
can a citizen be bankrupted by their illness. But it is the leading
cause of bankruptcy in the United States."

Jim McDermott, Democratic congressman
from Washington state, 2009

"According to a CDC epidemiologist
who had analyzed the agency's massive database containing the
medical records of 100,000 children, a mercury-based preservative
in the vaccines - thimerosal - appeared to be responsible for
a dramatic increase in autism and a host of other neurological
disorders among children.
The CDC paid the Institute of Medicine to conduct a study to whitewash
the risks of thimerosal, ordering researchers to "rule out"
the chemical's link to autism.
It withheld epidemiologist's findings, even though they had been
slated for immediate publication, and told other scientists that
his original data had been "lost" and could not be replicated.
And to thwart the Freedom of Information Act, it handed its giant
database of vaccine records over to a private company, declaring
it off-limits to researchers. By the time the epidemiologist finally
published his study in 2003, he had gone to work for GlaxoSmithKline
and reworked his data to bury the link between thimerosal and
autism."

Julie Lévesque, 2016

"In the early 1950s, there
were four vaccines: diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and smallpox.
Because three of these vaccines were combined into a single shot
(DTP), children received five shots by the time they were 2 years
old and not more than one shot at a single visit.
By the mid-1980s, there were seven vaccines: diphtheria, tetanus,
pertussis, measles, mumps, rubella and polio. Because six of these
vaccines were combined into two shots (DTP and MMR), and one,
the polio vaccine, was given by mouth, children still received
five shots by the time they were 2 years old and not more than
one shot at a single visit.
Since the mid-1980s, many vaccines have been added to the schedule.
Now, children could receive as many as 24 shots by 2 years of
age and five shots in a single visit."

Melissa Melton

"The government is saying
that animal products, dairy, meat, refined sugar and fat in your
diet are good for you. The government is turning a blind eye to
the evidence as well as to the millions of Americans who suffer
from nutrition-related illnesses The covenant of trust between
the U.S. government and the American citizen has been broken.

T. Colin Campbell, The China Study,
2006

"Although an association
between multiple sclerosis and the hepatitis B vaccine has been
debated for over 15 years, the CDC continues to categorically
deny this relationship. However, a 2014 retrospective French study
investigating the sudden spike in multiple sclerosis cases since
1993, identified France's mass Hepatitis B vaccination program
as the perpetuator for a doubling of MS cases within a few years."

Dr. Gary Null and Richard Gale,
2015

"Drug company employees
or their agents often design the drug studies, perform the analysis,
write the papers, and decide whether and in what form to publish
the results. Sometimes the medical faculty who serve as investigators
are little more than hired hands, supplying patients and collecting
data according to instructions from the company.
In view of this control and the conflicts of interest that permeate
the enterprise, it is not surprising that industry-sponsored trials
published in medical journals consistently favor sponsors' drugs."

Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor
in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, 2015

"Despite a lofty reputation
and purported commitment to universal coverage, AMA has fought
almost every major effort at health care reform of the past 70
years."

Sam Stein, 2009

"Vaccine manufacturers
continued to sell off their mercury-based supplies of vaccines
until 2004.
The CDC and FDA bought up mercury-tainted vaccines for export
to developing countries and allowed drug companies to continue
using the preservative in some American vaccines - including several
pediatric flu shots as well as tetanus boosters routinely given
to eleven-year-olds."

Julie Lévesque, 2016

"Every promoted so-called
"pandemic" is an extended sales pitch for vaccines.
And not just a vaccine against the "killer germ" of
the moment. We're talking about a psyop to condition the population
to vaccines in general."

Jon Rappoport, 2014

"A top scientist for the
United Nations, who has examined the outbreak of the deadly Ebola
virus in Africa, as well as HIV/AIDS victims, concluded that H1N1
possesses certain transmission "vectors" that suggest
that the new flu strain has been genetically-manufactured as a
military biological warfare weapon."

Wayne Madsen

"The prevalence rate for
autism in the United States before 1990 was only three children
per 10,000. When the CDC began surveillance of the study population
in 2000, figures clocked in at one child in every 150. Since then,
autism diagnoses have been steadily increasing each year."

Melissa Melton

"The entire system of public
nutrition information has been co-opted by industry sources. They
run the show. They buy a few academic hacks who have gained positions
of power and who exercise considerable influence, both within
academia and government."

T. Colin Campbell, The China Study,
2006

"What health insurance
corporations want to do is enhance their profits. Enhance shareholder
value. That's number one. The business that they're in is health
care, but their primary motivation is to reward their shareholders
- large, institutional investors and hedge funds.
... Health insurers confuse their customers and dump the sick,
all so they can satisfy their Wall Street investors. They look
carefully to see if a sick policyholder may have omitted a minor
illness, a pre-existing condition, when applying for coverage,
and then they use that as justification to cancel the policy,
even if the enrollee has never missed a premium payment."

Wendell Potter, former insurance
executive, 2009

"Center for Disease Control
[CDC] and Food and Drug Administration [FDA] researchers identify
749 deaths linked to the administration of the Hib vaccine, 51%
of which were sudden infant death linked to the administration
of Hib vaccine."

Julie Lévesque, 2016

"Medical schools now have
their own numerous deals with industry and are hardly in a moral
position to object to their faculty behaving in the same way.
Two thirds of academic medical centers hold equity interest in
companies that sponsor research within the same institution. Two
thirds of medical school department chairs received departmental
income from drug companies and three fifths received personal
income."

Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor
in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, 2015

"The medical status quo
relies heavily on medication and surgery to the exclusion of nutrition
and lifestyle. Doctors have virtually no training in nutrition
and how it relates to health.
... The health damage that results from doctors' ignorance of
nutrition is astounding."

T. Colin Campbell, The China Study,
2006

"We force 700,000 Americans
into bankruptcy each year because of medical bills. In France,
the number of medical bankruptcies is zero. Britain: zero. Japan:
zero. Germany: zero."

T.R. Reid, 2009

"Drug companies have perfected
a new and highly effective method to expand their markets. Instead
of promoting drugs to treat diseases, they have begun to promote
diseases to fit their drugs. The strategy is to convince as many
people as possible (including their doctors) that they have medical
conditions that require long-term drug treatment."

Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor
in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, 2015

"Government research funding
goes to the development of drugs and devices instead of healthy
nutrition."

T. Colin Campbell, The China Study,
2006

"Most medical journals
receive half or more of their income from pharmaceutical company
advertising and reprint orders, and dozens of others journals
are owned by pharmaceutical companies."

Julie Lévesque, 2016

"It is simply no longer
possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published,
or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative
medical guidelines."

Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor
in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, 2015

"Vitamin D is not a nutrient
that we need to consume. Our body can make all that we need simply
by being in sunlight fifteen to thirty minutes every couple of
days.
... Heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's, obesity or diabetes
are relatively unknown in traditional cultures that subsist mostly
on whole plant foods.
... Casein, and very likely all animal proteins, may be the most
relevant cancer-causing substances that we consume. Adjusting
the amount of dietary casein has the power to turn on and turn
off cancer growth."

T. Colin Campbell, The China Study,
2006

MI6 (BRITISH INTELLIGENCE
AGENCY)see INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES

MILITARY

"So important did military
spending and the military-industrial sector become during World
War II and the Cold War that they have become fundamental to the
U.S. economy, U.S. economic growth and above all U.S. technological
development. Despite its often almost incredible wastefulness
and corruption, this military spending has also been in some ways
a kind of unacknowledged but rather successful state industrial
development strategy in a country whose free market ideology meant
that it could not formally adopt or admit to such a strategy."

David Edwards - Burning All Illusions

"My guess is that, like
it or not, or want it or not, we are going to go to war because
that is the only solution Bush and his people can see. The dire
prospect that opens, therefore, is that America is going to become
a mega-banana republic where the army will have more and more
importance in our lives .... And before it is all over, democracy,
noble and delicate as it is, may give way .... Indeed, democracy
is the special condition ... we will be called upon to defend
in the coming years. That will be enormously difficult because
the combination of the corporation, the military and the complete
investiture of the flag with mass spectator sports has set up
a pre-fascistic atmosphere in America already."

Norman Mailer

"There's a very popular
thing that the drill sergeants require us to say... the response
to the question, "Soldiers, what makes the green grass grow?"
and the response is "Blood, blood, blood, Drill Sergeant!"

Kristopher Goldsmith, 2008

"Approximately 60,000 military
personnel were used as human subjects in the 1940s to test two
chemical agents, mustard gas and lewisite [blister gas]. Most
of these subjects were not informed of the nature of the experiments
and never received medical follow-up after their participation
in the research. Additionally, some of these human subjects were
threatened with imprisonment at Fort Leavenworth if they discussed
these experiments with anyone, including their wives, parents,
and family doctors. For decades, the Pentagon denied that the
research had taken place, resulting in decades of suffering for
many veterans who became ill after the secret testing."

a report of the US Congress, 1994

"I would only hope that
anyone considering joining the military today ... realize that
they have a higher calling than serving their country: to restore
faith in our system of governance, before they make themselves
ready to fight and kill and die in the United States of America,
knowing that they may end up dying for a lie."

Adam Kokesh, with the Marine Corps
civil affairs unit, 2008

"We in the U.S. military
are held to a high standard. Like the early Romans, we are expected
to do the right thing, and when we don't, to make it right again
... And it's why each civilian casualty for which we are even
remotely responsible sets back our efforts to gain the confidence
of the Afghan people, months, if not years. It doesn't matter
how hard we try to avoid hurting the innocent, and we do try very
hard. It doesn't matter how proportional the force we deploy,
how precisely we strike. It doesn't even matter if the enemy hides
behind civilians. What matters are the death and destruction that
result and the expectation that we could have avoided it ... Lose
the people's trust, and we lose the war ... I see this sort of
trust being fostered by our troops all over the world. They are
building schools, roads, wells, hospitals and power stations.
They work every day to build the sort of infrastructure that enables
local governments to stand on their own. But mostly, even when
they are going after the enemy, they are building friendships.
They are building trust. And they are doing it in superb fashion."

General Michael Mullen, chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2009

"If we had a draft - or
merely the threat of a draft - we would not be in Iraq or Afghanistan.
But we don't have a draft so it's safe for most of the nation
to be mindless about waging war. Other people's children are going
to the slaughter."

Bob Herbert , New York Times, August
25, 2009

"in our lifetimes, the
American military establishment has virtually become an autonomous
system. It is today an entirely mercenary-voluntary-force increasingly
separate from all but the transnational corporate interests it
protects."

William F. Pepper in his book "An
Act of State: the Execution of Martin Luther King"